You mean you were making syntax errors all the time :)
The IDE fixing it for you made the price of not knowing the syntax of the language you are using small enough for you to not bother learning the language properly.
Once you really grok a language syntax errors are mostly gone, that's for the learning phase not when you start writing serious sized blocks of code. Sure, everybody forgets a quote or a comma every now and then, especially when switching languages. But in a compiled environment without an IDE the cost of a syntax error (one more ect cycle) is too expensive to go through so you really spend time learning the language.
The "I suspect it's more that you'll be most productive in whichever environment you know best." is very true, but once you know then equally well I wonder which will win out.
The IDE fixing it for you made the price of not knowing the syntax of the language you are using small enough for you to not bother learning the language properly.
Once you really grok a language syntax errors are mostly gone, that's for the learning phase not when you start writing serious sized blocks of code. Sure, everybody forgets a quote or a comma every now and then, especially when switching languages. But in a compiled environment without an IDE the cost of a syntax error (one more ect cycle) is too expensive to go through so you really spend time learning the language.
The "I suspect it's more that you'll be most productive in whichever environment you know best." is very true, but once you know then equally well I wonder which will win out.